A D K Buddhika Harischandra

-Excelled in Life Insurance industry completing LKR 17+ mil in less than 3years. -Extensive ability of negotiating, convincing, finalizing proposals.
-Maintain high level of customer service.
-Effectively train new team members on sales techniques & motivation. -Conduct training sessions for colleagues on suspecting, prospecting, making appointments, negotiating, closing techniques, handling rejections & maintain relationships to finalize a successful sales Interview.

-Effectively handle a wide array of merchandising activities including sales, costing, procurement & order handling.
-Do timely analysis of sales & stock movements to achieve monthly sales targets.
- Accurately preparing stock movements & sell-through reports to analyse sales, costs & profits margins.
-Conducting meetings with shop managers with regards to sales & stocks to keep the KPIs right.
-Negotiate directly with suppliers regarding the prices, budgets, deliveries, returns, etc;.
-Actively involve in order forecasting, planning & buying.
-Skilfully pricing all new items on relevant mark-ups, deciding promotional items & make price changes for seasonal sales and promotions.
-Conduct inventories of all stores at the year-end as well as ad hoc basis.
-Well conversant with reputed ERP systems built for retail sector, Hansaworld & PIMS.

-Successfully handled the total responsibility of managing brands of Nayomi (Dubai), La Vie En Rose (Canada), GAP (UK) and Matalan (UK).
-Managed all new developments from receiving tech-packs to sourcing all trims. Well managed sample process with sample room securing all approvals to start bulk production on time.
-Well-received orders from suppliers, confirmed delivery dates dealing with planning team.
-Planned shipment schedule with logistics department to make sure deliveries are done on time.
-Attended weekly management meeting to present weekly progress, order updates, forecasts, budgets, cost and profits and discussed all other issues.

-Securely received orders directly from Reebok & Victoria’s Secret, planned them with the planning team to confirm delivery dates.
-Timely and accurately placed all raw-materials and trim orders to suppliers and made sure all RMs are in-house on time for the bulk production.
-Sorted out all issues attending weekly progress conference call with USA buyers.
-Accurately prepared management reports every month.
-Worked as a SAP Consultant in the merchandising department.

Responsible for handing sales and technical consulting for selling Memotec Routers, Newbridge Datacom equipment for customers like Sri Lanka Telcom, Suntel and Channel Partners like DPMCE